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ROADTRANSPORTANDSAFETYBILL , 2014

The Road Transport And Safety Bill , 2014 proposes to provide a framework for safer, faster,cost effective and inclusive movement of passengers and freight in the country . The bill aims at reducing road accident related fatalities by 5 lakhs , increase GDP by 4% on account of increased infrastructural efficiency and provide nearly one million employment owing to liberalization of the transport sector.

FEATURES

1.Setting up of MOTOR VEHICLE REGULATION AND ROAD SAFETY AUTHORITY OF INDIA , which would be a legally empowered agency , answerable to the parliament , whose main aim will be to set rules and regulations for both motor vehicles and road safety . The bill also makes this authority responsible for financing various road safety programs which would be implemented to increase awareness among the public.

2.promotion of innovation and adoption of these new technologies in a time bound manner , with time provided to the industry in migrating to the newer system.

10.Enforcement of modern safety technologies including electronic surveillance , with special emphasis on vulnerable road users like school children and women.

11. The bill also proposes the setting up of an accident fund for immediate relief of the victims.

12.setting up of NATIONAL ROAD TRANSPORT AND MULTIMODAL COORDINATION AUTHORITY , aimed at providing an integrated transport system with multimodal hubs for providing easier movement of people and goods across various modes of transport.

13 . promotion of public transport systems , with two tier permits – inter state and national permits.

14. Goods transport and National Freight Policy aimed at developing freight networks and address bottlenecks faced by the trucking industry by simplification of permits and clearance procedures.

15.INCREASED PENALTIES FOR TRAFFIC RELATED OFFENSES , with graded penalty point system and identification of repeat offenders.

2.The bill proposes to increase the participation of private players in public transport system , which many feel will affect the State Road Transport Corporations. This notion is mainly due to the fact that the bill don’t differentiate between stage carriage permits and contract carriage permits.

3.Heavy penalties would shrink the profitability of trucking industry.

4.The bill excludes pedestrian casualties from its ambit.

5. outsourcing of the licensing process to the private sector.

6. Integration of all the stakeholders into a single system will make the owners use genuine spare parts from authorized dealers , resulting in closure of smaller over the corner mechanics.

1Comment

A revolutionary change is being resisted! Here too media is conspicuously silent! On the other hand when a loco driver resisted check for inebriated state while on duty and train services went for a toss there was no report.